Battle of Heliopolis (1800)
1800 battle during the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Battle of Heliopolis was an engagement that pitted the French Armée d'Orient under General Kléber against an Ottoman army, supported by British forces, at Heliopolis[2] on 20 March 1800.
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Battle of Heliopolis | |||||||
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Part of the French Campaign in Egypt and Syria during the War of the Second Coalition | |||||||
Bataille d'Héliopolis, by Leon Cogniet | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
French Republic |
Ottoman Empire Great Britain[1] | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Jean-Baptiste Kléber Jean Reynier Louis Friant Augustin Daniel Belliard François-Xavier Donzelot Pierre Leclerc d'Ostein Joseph Lagrange Antoine Joseph Robin |
Nassif Pasha Ibrahim Bey | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
10,000 men[1] | 60,000 men[1] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
600 dead or wounded | 9,000 dead, wounded or captured | ||||||
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